I think a curse that’s meant for hyperbolic/comedic effect should always err on the side of “laughably improbable” (such as the giant asteroid) instead of “could easily happen”. Dying in a fire is unfortunately not uncommon.

Nonetheless I agree: web designers who clearly don’t give a fuck about how their site functions and would rather it animate them prettily at the very least need a smack with a rolled-up newspaper. “Bad designer. Bad!”

True, but keep in mind that while the designer can offer ideas and advice, ultimately s/he has to deliver what the client wants. A good friend of mine is a web designer, and is designing a site right now for a group I represent. The group rejected the first design, and insisted on changes. While I like the result, it could have turned out badly. I am traumatized by the idea of my friend dying in a fire, but not so much by the image of him getting smacked with a newspaper. If he gets hit by a giant asteroid we are all screwed anyway.

Once those web designers have been hit by the asteroid, can we send it on to the morons at Adobe who program the flash plugin for Chrome? You know, the one that constantly crashes? And pretty much crashes my old XP machine to the point of needing a reboot? You’d think the constant updates (which come prepackaged with an unwanted McAfee product) would include a fix, but apparently they aren’t capable of that.

“Shockwave Flash has Crashed”. Well, of course it has. It does every day.

Are we suggesting that being hit by an asteroid is better than dying in a fire? FWIW: I want to see the entirety of Adobe go up in flames, and all Flash content be destroyed by malware. Anonymous: please see to this (the malware, that is).